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Disco and Gay Liberation Movement

Reading

  • Randy Jones and Mark Bego, “Stonewall, the 1970s, and Bisexual Chic” and “The Birth of Disco and the Formation of Village People,” Macho Man: The Disco Era and Gay America’s ‘Coming Out” (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2009), 49-64, 77-106. [Canvas]

Videos

Opening Credits to Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Village People, “YMCA” (1980)
Village People, “Macho Man” (1978)
Diana Ross, “I’m Coming Out” (1980)

Music